I went to be ‘on time’ for a change and am now awake. So what are the random thoughts of a person at 4:00 am?
I’m really tired of blowing my nose and having chapped nostril edges. Sniffling, Sneezing, and not Breathing is not conductive to sleep. Or driving. Nothing worse than a massive sneezing fit that won’t stop when you are driving.

What’s with all these celebrities having babies.? It is everywhere on the online media. It’s like the new ‘it’ thing to do. I don’t see the big deal either. They all go on like they just did something no one else can do. Despite the fact that women have been popping out babies since the beginning of time. It’s so natural that even animals can do it.

I hate pictures of Romney and Ryan and their giant grins. Even from the start, before I know a lot about Romney, he always looked insincere and like he was compensating for something. Much like a used car salesman trying to distract you from the problems with the car using showmanship. Paul Ryan looks like a bully laughing at someone he just sent flying into a pile of poo. And when they show them together, with those huge, ‘shit eating’ grins, they look like a couple of snake oil salesmen celebrating how much money they scammed from the small town hick’s.

When I want to read a news article, I want to READ it. I don’t want a video. I hate video news articles. I can read the info faster than they can tell it to me. Don’t waste my time with videos.

I use Firefox on one monitor and Explorer on the other. I wish it would let me select different home pages for each program. I would use Yahoo on Firefox and MSN on Explorer. That way I can get into MSN games and play while doing other stuff on Firefox. I love playing Jigsaw, but it only gives 3 puzzles at a time. I wish there was a greater varied of puzzles at all times. And I finally beat Mahjongg Dimensions. There is only three levels. That is kind of sad.

I really need to go back to sleep. My brain isn’t really functioning right now.

According to recent news articles, the black vote is wavering. This does not concern me as much as the reason WHY it is wavering.

Some Christian Blacks are concerned that Romney’s Mormonism may affect his policies. Others are concerned that Romney seems to be a president for rich white men and feel he doesn’t care at all about the African American population of the country. This impression is, in part, due to the fact that until fairly recently, African Americans were not allowed into the priesthood.

These same people are concerned about Obama supporting gay marriage. They don’t see how a true Christian can support that and therefore are reluctant to vote for him again.

As congregations are discussing this, pastors are offering their people a third option. On that I think is no option at all: the option of simply not voting.

I’m sure this is going on among white people and people of every race or ethnicity. But the current articles are focusing one blacks because they are viewed as one of base demographics in support of Obama in general.

By choosing not to vote, your ‘vote’ in essence, becomes a factor in favor of the person you least want to win. The political process, buy it’s very nature, is not a vote for the best but for whomever you think is the least worse.

By choosing not to vote, you give up your voice and your right to complain if you don’t like how things turn out.

For example, I voted for Obama. I don’t like how the Obamacare package turned out. Despite some of the good things in it, it is otherwise so flawed and so bad that I think scrapping the whole thing and doing it over would be better. But Romney is my ‘Antichrist’ and I would rather vote Obama again than risk him getting into office. Had I NOT voted, I would have given up my voice in this political discourse because I chose not have no opinion and to let the opinions of others determine the outcome.

In other words, if you want to complain, you have to participate first. Otherwise you don’t have any solid ground to stand on. You become the house build on the shifting stand rather than the one build on solid rock.

Now the issues that concern them are NOT the reasons why I myself am concerned about a wavering black vote. It is the fact that pastors are using the pulpit to give advice on not voting. I think that it is wrong for any pastor to be using the pulpit to discuss political activism. I think that they can discuss social activism because they are concerned with social issues. But when it crosses a boundary into political advice on how to vote then they are crossing the line of separation of church and state.

Once churches cross this line, I think they should be giving up their status as a tax-exempt entity. I don’t care if a church protests social issues, as much as I dislike churches trying to tell everyone that they should live their lives by the churches rules. I do care when they start telling people how to vote or when to not vote.

It is even harder to imaging people who have fought so long and hard to get the right to vote decided on to do it at all because they don’t like either candidate. Once again, with politics, you are trying to pick the lesser of two evils.

Is allowing people to get married really more harmful to you than a candidate that is pushing through reforms that will make it harder for you to vote, and who things corporations should be treated as people and people are just cogs that can be easily replaced with cheaper cogs overseas?

Really?

Don’t choose not to vote. You should choose to vote for someone who will actually do things to improve your personal situation. Another person’s marriage or reproduction decision doesn’t affect your life personally, so don’t base your vote on that.

A vote for Romeny/Ryan is a vote to support the right of the very rich to rape and pillage the rank and file of regular Americans in order to line their own pockets. The very image of the Robber Barons that were whitewashed and turned into role models as ‘captains of industry’.

It’s a vote for “the ends justify the means’.

It is a vote for the subjugation of women and a return to 1950’s morality and the stagnation of society.

It is a vote to keep government out of business and put government into your homes and bedrooms.

Obama may have been a disappointment but he is still a better choice than the above.